Good spot to spend the winter in Mexico
My family and I ventured into Mexico half a year ago and are falling in love with this country. Besides the fact that the weather is fantastic( where we are right now, daytime temperature stays around...
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The bugs can get fierce ANYWHERE if a hurricane sucks them from a marsh or lagoon. No-see-ums hatch in standing salt or brackish water. This is why enramada owners wet down their sand with fresh water every morning.
The most negative point about living in a steep walled enclosed bay is the hills cut off the badly needed summer breeze. Many times went to Z where temps were 90+ with 80+ humidity while Las Penas was mid eighties with 60% humidity. My secret is a hideout -- a small interior room. No windows. Recliner and internet. Window air conditioner through the concrete wall. When my Mexican neighbors saw what I did, hideouts started being constructed in some homes. Right on the water, it is 7-8 degrees cooler than it is 200 yards inland.
Both Quicksilver and the casita have 36" square grid teak shower platforms. Nothing feels as good against my feet. And multiple showers a day make it a delight. My kid has been bugging me for an LPG clothes drier. Really handy in the summer months.
CRACK OF DAWN: Upandattem. Coffee. Tour garden and admire the sun rising on the Pacific ocean. The sun rises and sets on the winter ocean here. The coastline is west to east here, just a tad to the northeast.
Around ten or so in the summer the sun gets hot. Cruise on down to the enramada. Listen to gossip and neighbor Andrea's lurid jokes. Daughter, son-in-law are not coffee people. Dalia, age 12 is a snob. She insists on poaching my whole bean fresh roast.
Liquify tropical fruit. Freeze upright in sandwich bags. When it's blinding hot suck on the contents of a bag. The girls drink pint slushies (sugar forbidden) it chills them to the point of goose bumps in 85F weather.
NOTHING works as good as pure Pennyroyal Oil to thwart all classes of insects. One single solitary drop applied to the hands. Rub on all unclothed flesh. Pennyroyal Oil protects against Jejenes grandotes, and Tabanos, which laugh and bite straight through an oil slick of 100% DEET.
Men get strange whispers when carrying an umbrella. That is, only until the mgic word is whispered --- CANCER. A "Para Sol" does its work. Portable shade tree. Parked in the sun for many hours? Carry a silver colored tarp and half dozen of those featherweight packing blocks. Arrange the blocks. Toss the tarp across the top of the car. Cover the windshield. Slam the ends in the doors. Magic to stop car a la oven.
Slippers at night for bathroom runs -- scorpions. This tip will bring laughs until one is stepped on. Ultraviolet flashlight for checking bathrooms for scorpions at night. Again, this brings gales of laughter --- until the nighttime air is rent with screams and paint peeling expletives.
The bugs can get fierce ANYWHERE if a hurricane sucks them from a marsh or lagoon. No-see-ums hatch in standing salt or brackish water. This is why enramada owners wet down their sand with fresh water every morning.
The most negative point about living in a steep walled enclosed bay is the hills cut off the badly needed summer breeze. Many times went to Z where temps were 90+ with 80+ humidity while Las Penas was mid eighties with 60% humidity. My secret is a hideout -- a small interior room. No windows. Recliner and internet. Window air conditioner through the concrete wall. When my Mexican neighbors saw what I did, hideouts started being constructed in some homes. Right on the water, it is 7-8 degrees cooler than it is 200 yards inland.
Both Quicksilver and the casita have 36" square grid teak shower platforms. Nothing feels as good against my feet. And multiple showers a day make it a delight. My kid has been bugging me for an LPG clothes drier. Really handy in the summer months.
CRACK OF DAWN: Upandattem. Coffee. Tour garden and admire the sun rising on the Pacific ocean. The sun rises and sets on the winter ocean here. The coastline is west to east here, just a tad to the northeast.
Around ten or so in the summer the sun gets hot. Cruise on down to the enramada. Listen to gossip and neighbor Andrea's lurid jokes. Daughter, son-in-law are not coffee people. Dalia, age 12 is a snob. She insists on poaching my whole bean fresh roast.
Liquify tropical fruit. Freeze upright in sandwich bags. When it's blinding hot suck on the contents of a bag. The girls drink pint slushies (sugar forbidden) it chills them to the point of goose bumps in 85F weather.
NOTHING works as good as pure Pennyroyal Oil to thwart all classes of insects. One single solitary drop applied to the hands. Rub on all unclothed flesh. Pennyroyal Oil protects against Jejenes grandotes, and Tabanos, which laugh and bite straight through an oil slick of 100% DEET.
Men get strange whispers when carrying an umbrella. That is, only until the mgic word is whispered --- CANCER. A "Para Sol" does its work. Portable shade tree. Parked in the sun for many hours? Carry a silver colored tarp and half dozen of those featherweight packing blocks. Arrange the blocks. Toss the tarp across the top of the car. Cover the windshield. Slam the ends in the doors. Magic to stop car a la oven.
Slippers at night for bathroom runs -- scorpions. This tip will bring laughs until one is stepped on. Ultraviolet flashlight for checking bathrooms for scorpions at night. Again, this brings gales of laughter --- until the nighttime air is rent with screams and paint peeling expletives.
